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No. 736,540. PATNNTED ANG. 1a, 190s. c. OWENS. PRINTING.

APPLICATION IILEDJULY 18, 1902.

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UNITED STATES 'Patented August 18,1903.

PTENT Prion.

TO DWIGHT P. MONTAGUE, F CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE.

PRINTING.

SPECIFICATION forming pere ef Letters Patent Ive. v736,540, detect August 1s, 190s.

Application sied my 1s. 1902.

.To alt whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES OWENS, a citt zen of the United States, and a resident of Chattanooga, in the county of Hamilton and 'State of Tennessee, have invented certain Improvements in Printing Mechanism, of which the following is a speciiication. V h

This invention relates more particularly to mail-marking and address-printing. Its primary object is to provideinexpensive auto` matic mechanism operating cheap and readily-constructed typeforms,which will rapidly mark or address wrapped pamphlets, catalogues, magazines, an'd the like. The printing operation is effected bythe action of the articleto be printed as it is carried through the press, and the type-forms are suitably made by raising orembossing letters o n sections of ribbons jof sheet metal, as by the action of a type-writing machine on sheet-brass I six one-thousandths of an inch thick.

The natu-re and characteristic features of the improvements will more fully appear by reference to the following description and the' accompanying drawings in illustration there'- of, of which Figure 1 shows a form of the printing mechanisnrinside elevation. Fig. 2 is a rear ele-' vation of the construction as shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows a lsecond form of the printing mechanism, and Fig. 4 is a rear'ele'vation of the construction as 'shown'inFig 3.

Referring particularly to Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, the conveying mechanism* comprises the tapes 1, traveling over the pulleys 2, which are mounted on a revoluble shaft 3, having the roller 4 loosely mounted thereon, i these elements coacting, respectively, with the conveying-tapes 1', traveling over the pulleys 2', which yare mounted on the shaft 3', having the platen or pressure roller 4' mounted thereon, the article to be .printed being held between .the advancing sections of the conveyors 'and carried thereby between the platen 4 and roller 4. As the tapes and pulleys are adapted for carrying the articles between theplaten 4 and the roller 4, the platen may bearranged so as to revolve with or independently of the p pulleys; but it will be un derstood that if it is arranged to revolve therewith '1t should not be in such frictional en* the abutment 9.

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gagement with the roller as to cause it to revolve. As the respective articles are carried between the platen 4 and roller 4 they engage the projections 5, fixed to the roller, and revolve the same, so that the type-form 6, preferably a lettered section of metallic ribthe face or wrapper of the article which is printed thereby and then discharged. The spring 7, connected with the roller 4, then throws it back to its initial position, limited by the engagement of the lug 8 thereon with The type-form 6 is inked by the gelatin roller 10, which is inked intermittently by the rocking-roller 11, the latter being journaled in the arms 12, fixed on the shaft 13, which is rocked `by the arm 12', with the roller 14 bearing on an oscillating cam 15, fixed with relation to the roller 4.

Referring'to Figs. 3 and 40E the drawings, as in Figs. 1 and 2, the article to be printed 'is carried by the conveying-tapes 1 andv 1',

passingl overthe pulleys 2 and 2 on the shafts 3 and 3' between the roller 4 and platen 4', and by engaging the projections 5 rewvolves the roller 4, which is thrown back by the spring 7, when the article is discharged.

In this construction the roller 4 is provided with the recess 4" to receive the auxiliary roller 20, which is jonrnaled in the bearings 21. The roller 4 has in this construction a pawl 23 connected therewith, which engages a ratchet-wheel 24, to which a gear-wheel 25 is fixed, the'v ratchet and gear wheels being revolubly mounted on the shaft 3. The gearwheel 25 engages the gear-wheel 26, which is Xed on a revoluble shaft 27, having a friction disk or wheel 28 fixed thereon. Against the disk 28 is pressed the reel or spool 29, which is journaled in the blocks 30, adapted to move in the guides 31 and thrust forward by thesprings 32. Against the disk 28 there is also pressed the reel or spool 33, which is journaled in the blocks 34, adapted to move in the guides 35 and thrust forward by the springs 36. The reel 29 has -wound thereon one end ofthe metallic ribbon 6,with typeforms or electrotypes sectonally arranged thereon, the ribbon passing thence under the idle roller 37 and the gelatin inking-roller 11 ybon carried by the roller 4, is pressed against e ICO over lthe auxiliary roller 20 and idle roller 38 o n j' actuated and the printing effected by the imto the reel 38, upon which it is Wound, the,

roller 20 being adapted to move Withlthe ribbon 6 and the type-forms thereon.

ates the printing deviceand carries the type.- form forward against the article, which is printed thereby, the moving type-form being inked as it passesv the inking-roller locatedv in its path. When the press mechanism is released by the discharge of the printed arl platen and a printing device actuated by the article carried by the conveying mechanism, the printing device being in the path of the approaching article and receiving its printing movement from the impact thereof, substantially as specified.

3. The combination of conveying mechanism, with a platen, a revoluble device and a type-form, said device being in the path of and actuated by the impact of an advancing article to be imprinted, substantially as specified. y

4. The combination of conveying mechanism comprising a set of traveling tapes, with printing mechanism comprising a pressureroller and a printing device in the path ofl and actuated by the impact of an advancing article to be printed as it is passed therethrough by the conveying mechanism, substantially as specified.

`5. l The combination of conveying mechanism, with printing mechanism comprising a pressure-roller, a reciprocating device,a'nd a type-form, said reciprocating device being pact of the article to be imprinted, substantially as specified. v

6. The combination of conveying mechanism comprising a set of traveling tapes, .with a revolving platen, a reciprocating device,

i and a type-form, said device being actuated by thearticle to be imprinted, substantially as specied.

'7. The combination of conveying lmechanism'comprising a set of traveling tapes, "with afrrevolving platen, a reciprocating device and a type-form, said device being actuated ,A vby the article to be imprinted and automaticl 4 printed article, substantially as specified. u

ally retracted upon the dischargeof the im- 8. The combination of conveying mechan- Illu'` the? operation each article which the conveying. mechanism passes through the press actu-- ism comprising a set of traveling tapes, with` i a rolling platen, a rolling device coacting with said platen, and a type-form-of.- embossed sheet'metal', operated by said rolling device,

said rolling device being reciprocated to eifect the operation of said type-form, substantially as specified.

9. The combination ofconveying mechan` ism comprising a set of traveling tapes, with type upon the articles to be imprinted, substantially as specified.

l0. The combination of conveying mechanism,with a rolling platen, a rolling device actuated by the impact of the article carried by the conveying mechanism, a traveling type-form adapted to be imprinted upon the article by the rolling device, and a roller forv inking the type-form, substantially as specied. A 11. The combination of conveying mechanism comprising two sets of traveling tapes, with a rolling platen, a rolling device actuat-A ing a type-form, an inking-roller in the path of said type-form, said type-form being actuated by the article to lbe imprinted, anoscillating roller for inking said inking-roller,

a cam coacting with said rolli'ng'device, and r rocking mechanism by which said cam actnates said oscillating roller, substantially as specified.

12. The combination of two sets of traveling tapes, with a rolling device actuated by..

.roller for inking said inking-roller, a cam connected with said rolling device, and rocking mechanismby which said cam actuates said oscillating roller, substantially. as speciiied.

13. The combination of a. revolving platen, withy a roller adapted to be actuated by.V an article to be imprinted, an auxiliary roller or bed, and a type-form advanced by said iirst roller and pressed by said auxiliary roller against said article, substantially as specied.

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14. The combination of a conveying mechanism`with a roller, a ribbon having typeformsarranged thereon, and mechanism for carrying said ribbon over said roller, said.

mechanism being actuated by articles carriedl I by said conveying mechanism, substantially.

as specified.

15. The combination ofi-a' platen, with L roller, a ribbon having type-forms arranged(Y.`

thereon, and mechanism for carryingsaid ribbon 'over said roller, said mechanism-being'fv actuated by -articles `carried between saidplaten and roller, substantially as specified'.

16. The combination of a roller-,with'an os-'l t cillating ratchet mechanism', apair of reels connected with and operated'by said ratchet i.

mechanism, andaribbon `bearing type-forms, 5

drawn by said reels over said roller, substantially as speciied.

17. The combination of a roller, with an oscillating ratchet mechanism, a shaft having a friction-wheel thereon geared to said ratchet mechanism, a pair of reels operated by frictional contact with said friction-wheel, and a ribbon bearing type-forms, substantially as specified.

18. The combination of a pair of reeis having journal-blocks movable in guides, with a wheel with which said reels are held in engagement, a rolling bed, a ribbon bearing type-forms passing over said bed and having its ends wound upon said reels, and mechanism connecting said bed and wheel whereby said type-forms are advanced in conjunction with the movement of said bed, substantially as specified.

19. The combination of a rolling platen,

- with a roller actuated by the impact of an article passing between said platen and roller, an auxiliary roller, a pail' of reels connected with and actuated by said first-named roller, and a ribbon having type forms thereon passed by said reels over said second-named roller, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, in the presence of the subscribing witnesses= this 14th day of July, 1902.

CHARLES OWENS.

- Witnesses:

A. R. MOKENZIE, T. L. MONTAGUE. 

